
StoreDot continues to develop the XFC technology in both cylindrical and prismatic form factors with updates expected soon on shipping those to OEM partners. This landmark milestone follows StoreDot’s announcement in March that it had set a world record of 1200 cycles for its extreme fast charging cells in prototype format.

Fast charging battery technology for electric vehicles No noticeable degradation occurred within the first 600 cycles in which the cells were consecutively fast-charged between 10 to 80 percent. The EV cells achieved over 1000 of these extreme charging cycles consecutively before degrading below 80 percent of the original capacity threshold.

StoreDot’s ‘100in5’ cells repeatedly charged from 10 to 80 percent capacity in just 10 minutes and then discharged for one hour before recharging.
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The cells exhibit the promised ‘100in5’ EV performance, allowing drivers to charge consecutively 100 miles of range for every 5 minutes of charging. The 300Wh/kg, 700 Wh/l high energy density cells are being shipped in pouch format to StoreDot’s global automotive OEM partners for intense real-world testing. StoreDot, the pioneer of extremely fast charging battery technology for electric vehicles, has proven the superior performance of its extremely fast charging battery cell technology by delivering cells that have exceeded 1000 cycles in production-ready EV form factor.

However, its author adds the irreverent advice that you could always “start anywhere you like and the fill in the bits you missed later”. The book comes with encouraging instructions advising users to “start at number 1” and “don’t worry if you make a mistake”. One Rorschach-esque picture in Moore’s book has more than 1,700 dots to join. The book comes with the promise of “over 30,000 dots” to join, although the images – which include a pharaoh’s death mask, the Taj Mahal and a skull – look more like the basis of a psychiatric evaluation. The retailer said that at times it has struggled to keep up with demand and in some cases it has rationed stocks as they kept selling out.įor a tenner you can pick up Gareth Moore’s Ultimate Dot to Dot. Colouring books make up 70% of WH Smith’s sales of “adult activity” books but extreme dot-to-dot and querkles are the fastest growing new puzzle genres.

Rather than reaching for a glass of wine at the end of the day, these wholesome pursuits are often touted as an antidote to stress. “It has had a big impact on our book sales and we are still seeing it performing really strongly.” “In the last couple of months two other activity books have taken off – extreme dot-to-dot and a thing called querkle, which is extreme colour by numbers,” said Stephen Clarke, the WH Smith chief executive.
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Titles such as Enchanted Forest by Johanna Basford and and Millie Marotta’s Animal Kingdom are still riding high in the Amazon UK bestseller list, where reviewers swap handy tips on which are the best pens and pencils to use and how to best colour over the centre of a double page spread. Photograph: Handoutĭemand for what WH Smith calls colour therapy books has been propping up book sales at the retailer since last spring. A drawing of New York’s Manhattan bridge from an extreme dot-to-dot book.
